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“Speak the truth in love, leaving no one in doubt about where you stand. Bear faithful witness. Be gentle as doves, but wise — even cunning — as serpents. Do not compromise your principles — out of fear or even in the hope of advancing worthy goals. Do not fall into the error of believing that a good end justifies a bad means. But do work tirelessly for the best causes — especially life and marriage, but also, and relatedly, to lift up the poor, the downtrodden and the persecuted, both here in the United States and abroad.”

Robert P. George

2017, Interview with Matthew Bunson (2017)

Love , Life , Marriage , Truth

“Things always seem impossible until people do them.”

Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

People

“We have to do it for our children and for our grandchildren and so that this profound experiment in ordered liberty that was bequeathed to us by Madison and Washington and Hamilton and Adams and by Lincoln doesn't collapse. That republican government, which is ultimately what's at stake here, because a licentious people is not going to sustain republican government. We've got to make sure that republican government, government not only of the people as all government is but by and for the people doesn't perish from the Earth. If we lose it here, it's not as if it's going to be restarted somewhere else. People look to the United States to see if whether self-government can actually work and it's not going to work unless we as individual people and as members of small communities, institutions of civil society, are able to govern ourselves or are able to control our own passions and desires.”

Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

Children , People , Communication , Passion

“[W]hat is happening is what left-wing revolutions do tend to produce, whether they’re talking about the Russian Revolution or the French Revolution, and that is students – the next generation of revolutionaries – become not only more radical than their radical professors, but they turn on them so the revolution tends to consume its own. So now people who think of themselves of impeccably left-wing will say something that offends some group of radicalized students – perhaps students that they themselves helped to radicalize – and suddenly they are the ones under fire for not conforming sufficiently to the contemporary orthodoxy.”

Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

People , Thinking , Help

“It takes 11 guys to change the world. It takes five to change a university. We can do this.”

Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

World , Guy , Universe , Change

“My God! People! People!!! Do you not see where this goes??? Do the Dutch, who suffered under--and in many cases heroically resisted--Hitler's domination, forget that the "final solution" began with the dehumanization and eugenic killing of the handicapped?”

Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/941363851039297536 (14 December 2017)
2017

God , People , Suffering , Forgetting

“Be not afraid… Have courage. Be bold. Do not let yourself be intimidated. Do not yield to the bullies. Stand up. Speak out. Fear God, not men. Be willing to bear the cost of discipleship. Be prepared to take up your cross and follow Jesus — even to Calvary.”

Robert P. George

2017, Interview with Matthew Bunson (2017)

Men , God , Fear , Courage

“Others must do as their own consciences require, but I stand with @monacharenEPPC. She stands for true conservative, American, and Judaeo-Christian values.”

Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/967529815317274624 (24 February 2018)
2018

“Despite our profound differences, Americans on both or all sides of the great cultural struggles of our day must recognize their opponents (or most, or at least many, of their opponents) as reasonable people of goodwill who, doing their best, have arrived at different conclusions about fundamental moral questions — including basic questions of justice and human rights. If that is to happen, political and intellectual leaders, as well as people in the media, are going to have to model treating their adversaries with respect — and not demonizing them.”

Robert P. George

2017, Interview with Matthew Bunson (2017)

People , Justice , Question

“If you hate Jews you do not love God. You may claim to be a Christian (or Muslim) but the God you worship is an idol, not the God of Israel.”

Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/965423906436866049 (18 February 2018)
2018

Love , God , Hate